Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:45 AM ET, July 16, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McConnell defers vote on Senate health-care bill as McCain recovers from surgery  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) put off plans late Saturday to vote on a bill to overhaul the nation's health-care system this week, after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced he would be at home recovering …
Discussion: Political Wire
RELATED:
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: Senate to ‘defer’ on Obamacare repeal vote  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote to repeal and replace Obamacare scheduled for early next week after Sen. John McCain announced he'd be out due to surgery, costing Republicans sufficient votes to move forward.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain's surgery puts Obamacare repeal vote in doubt  —  Sen. John McCain underwent surgery to remove a blood clot above his left eye and will stay in Arizona to recover next week - denying Republicans a key vote in their push to repeal Obamacare, where the GOP already has no room for error.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
McCain to miss week, likely delaying healthcare vote  —  (R-Ariz.) will miss this week's votes in the Senate after undergoing surgery on Friday, depriving Republicans of a key vote on healthcare.  —  McCain's absence means Senate Republicans almost certainly will not have the 50 votes they'd need to win a procedural vote.
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:   Mitch McConnell's Heavy Health-Care Lift
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval still doesn't support the Senate health-care bill.  That's big trouble for Republicans.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Paid Don Jr.'s Lawyer $50,000 Two Weeks Before Email Scandal … About two weeks before the release of emails showing Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research from attorneys representing the Russian government, his father's reelection campaign began paying the law firm …
Discussion: NPR, New York Magazine and Axios
RELATED:
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Russian lawyer obtained Hill hearing seat from former Florida Trump campaign chair's husband  —  The husband of the former Florida chair of the Trump campaign obtained a front-row seat to a June 2016 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney …
Kevin Dolak / ABC News:
Trump campaign paid Donald Trump Jr.'s lawyer weeks before Russian meeting was revealed  —  Almost two weeks before Donald Trump Jr. published screengrabs of purported emails indicating that he arranged to meet with a Russian lawyer, President Trump's re-election campaign paid $50,000 …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump defends his son — drawing a contrast with Clinton — and says media are ‘distorting democracy’
Discussion: ThinkProgress, CBS News and Mediaite
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   MSNBC interview goes off the rails when Joy Reid holds Trump supporter's feet to the fire on Russia
New York Times:
Soviet Veteran Who Met With Trump Jr. Is a Master of the Dark Arts  —  MOSCOW — Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in June 2016, had one consistent message for the journalists who met him over the years at the luxury hotels where he stayed in Moscow …
Washington Post:
Poll finds Trump standing weakened since springtime … President Trump's standing with the American people has deteriorated since the spring, buffeted by perceptions of a decline in U.S. leadership abroad, a stalled presidential agenda at home and an unpopular Republican health-care bill …
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Trump's Re-Election Campaign Doubles Its Spending on Legal Fees  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's re-election campaign more than doubled its spending on legal fees over the past few months as its lawyers assisted the campaign in its handling of investigations into interactions between the president's associates and Russia.
RELATED:
Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Trump re-election campaign doubles spending on legal fees
Discussion: Raw Story
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Trump campaign and fundraising committees raise $13.9 million in second quarter
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Comey's Writing a Book, and Publishers Are Eager to Pay Big Money for It  —  James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who was fired in May by President Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration.
David Wooding / The Sun:
TRUMP COWER Donald Trump begs Theresa May to fix a ‘warm welcome’ for his state visit - and says he won't set a date for it until he knows he's going to get ‘a better reception’  —  US President warns he will not visit until he can guarantee a good reception and pleas with Theresa May to help influence public
Discussion: Business Insider
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hillary's White House would be no different from Trump's  —  Nepotism, self-enrichment, clashes with Congress — that'd be Hillary in the Oval Office.  —  Getty Images  —  MORE FROM: … It wouldn't have taken much for Hillary Clinton to prevail on Election Night.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:45 AM ET, July 16, 2017.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Deroy Murdock / New York Post:
The vote fraud that Democrats refuse to see
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
In Clash Over Health Bill, a Growing Fear of ‘Junk Insurance’
Discussion: Power Line
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Liu Xiaobo: dissident's friends angry after hastily arranged sea burial
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Catholic journal criticizes Trump ‘value voters’
Discussion: The Hill
Dean Baker / cepr.net:
Lessons on Labor Economics for the Owner of a Roofing Company in Nebraska
Discussion: New York Times
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Idaho news station apologizes for using photo of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson …
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Gay Couple Brutally Attacked in German Asylum Home
Discussion: PinkNews and The Gateway Pundit
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Kamala Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stanford News:
Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies
Discussion: Althouse
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’
Michelle Rindels / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval unmoved on health bill after meeting with White House officials; Price advises governors to disregard CBO
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page